Improved horse-collar pad



UNITED STATES PATENT FFIGEL- JAMES S. HUSTON, OF MEOHANIGSBURG,PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED HORSE-COLLAR PAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 102,403, dated April26, 1870.

To all whom it may concern: n

Be it known that I, JAMES S. HUSTON, of Mechanicsburg, in the county ofCumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvementsin Horse-Collar Pads, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in providing a horses collar with aflexible metallic pad, the object of which is to give greater ease andcomfort to the horses neck by keeping the upper part of the collarsufficiently expanded, and preventing the same from being crushed in onthe horses neck when under a heavy draft; also, by this provision of ametallic pad, the difficulty heretofore experienced, in the use of theordinary pad, of the hamestraps cutting through and resting on thehorses neck is entirely obviated.V

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willdescribe its construction by referring to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the collar, showing` the pad in itsproper place. Fig. 2 is an elevated View of the same, looking throughthe collar.

The pad A is constructed of any suitable flexible sheet metal, and ofwidth and length to correspond proportionably to that of the collars.This pad or piece of metal is covered with leather to prevent the metalcoming in contact with the horses neck, the leather being secured in asubstantial lnanner to the metal by means of rivets passing through themetal, and that part of the leather that overlaps the edge of the metal.(See l 2 3, Fig. 1, and at c, Fig. 2.) By this means the head of therivet is shielded between the leather and metal underneath While itpasses through to the top, where it is riveted in a substantial manner,thus making a much more neat, substantial, and economical pad than hasbeen used heretofore.

The pad A may be attached permanently to one side of the collar B bymeans of rivets, as shown at C, Fig. 2. The other side may be readilyadjusted by means of the straps and buckles, as shown in the severalfigures.

Having fully set forth and described my invention, what Iclaim, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The iiexible metallic pad A, when permanently secured to the collar B,as shown and described, and for the purpose specified.

JAMES S. HUSTON.

Witnesses:

G. L. DU LANG, JOSEPH LEAs.

